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US Secret Service probed after sensitive files left on Metro train

by Lisa Vaas on December 10, 2012 | 3 Comments
US Secret Service probed after sensitive files left on Metro train

A contractor working for the US Secret Service left two tapes full of extremely sensitive data on a Metro train, losing the extremely sensitive, personal data of staff, contact and overseas informants.

How to find out everything that Facebook *really* knows about you

by Lisa Vaas on October 20, 2011 | 65 Comments
Law student triggers 22 legal complaints and likely audit of Facebook

Max Schrems, a 24-year-old law student, is now sitting on a pile of 1,200 pages that comprise his personal-data Facebook dossier.

Here's how you can demand the same information from Facebook.